Brummett v. Wepfer Marine, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a challenge to the congestion of the chosen forum’s docket is entitled to almost no weight where the evidence does not show that the court’s calendar in the other forum would resolve the dispute more expeditiously
• \Courts should be extremely reluctant to dismiss a case from the forum rei gestae merely because that forum's docket has a backlog\
• the plaintiff suffered a traumatic fall while the vessel on which he worked was docked at Lock Number 26 near Alton, Illinois
• the plaintiff suffered a traumatic fall while the vessel on which he worked was docked at Lock Number 26 near Alton, Illinois
• `Courts should be extremely reluctant to dismiss a case from the forum rei gestae merely because that forum's docket has a backlog'
• ‘Courts should be extremely reluctant to dismiss a case from the forum, rei gestae merely because that forum’s docket has a backlog’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).